The team, coached by Georges Laplante, finished in seventh place overall in the final rankings. “It was a hard match. We are not playing great but, I mean a win is a win, so we’ll take it,” Laplante said.

“We are a little disappointed with the result in this tournament. We definitively wanted to do a lot better,” said the captain of this squad, Van Lankvelt. “It was difficult. We really wanted to come out in the fifth set and win this match I am happy how the guys wanted and battled for the win.”

José Álvarez Cutiño, coach of Dominican Republic, remarked: “It was a very tense match, very good on both sides of the net. We were confused in the last set tactically, we could not coordinate a movement and that’s why the match cost us a lost.”

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